HLIT vs. SWIR, BCOV, CMTL, SATS, IDCC, CALX, VSAT, EXTR, INFN, and DGII
Should you be buying Harmonic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmonic include Sierra Wireless (SWIR), Brightcove (BCOV), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), and Digi International (DGII). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR) and Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Harmonic has a net margin of 10.22% compared to Sierra Wireless' net margin of -3.19%. Sierra Wireless' return on equity of 7.64% beat Harmonic's return on equity.
In the previous week, Harmonic had 8 more articles in the media than Sierra Wireless. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Harmonic and 0 mentions for Sierra Wireless. Harmonic's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Sierra Wireless' score of 0.71 indicating that Harmonic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Harmonic has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 36.23%. Given Harmonic's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Harmonic is more favorable than Sierra Wireless.
Sierra Wireless has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmonic has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sierra Wireless received 84 more outperform votes than Harmonic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.27% of users gave Harmonic an outperform vote while only 50.11% of users gave Sierra Wireless an outperform vote.
Harmonic has higher revenue and earnings than Sierra Wireless. Sierra Wireless is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harmonic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.8% of Sierra Wireless shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Harmonic shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Sierra Wireless shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Harmonic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Harmonic beats Sierra Wireless on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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